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A new U.S. Department of Transportation memo says the agency will prioritize projects in communities with high birth and marriage rates and those that require local cooperation or compliance with federal immigration enforcement.
That could jeopardize the flow of federal transportation dollars to Colorado, where state laws limit how much local law enforcement can cooperate with federal immigration officials and where the state’s fertility rate is among the lowest in the nation.
The memo was one of a handful issued Wednesday by President Trump’s new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy that will roll back climate; diversity, equity and inclusion programs; and other Biden-era policies in the Department of Transportation.
“The American people deserve an efficient, safe, and pro-growth transportation system based on sound decision-making, not political ideologies,” Duffy said in a press release. “These actions will help us deliver on that promise.”
A spokesperson for Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said tying road funding to marriage and birth rates was “ludicrous on its face.”
“A pothole doesn’t belong to a political party or care if you’re married or not, so it’s disappointing to see that President Trump and his team attempt to block road funding,” spokeswoman Shelby Wieman wrote in an email. “Colorado will continue making investments in our roads and transit that are driven by market demand, reduce traffic, and drive economic growth. Donald Trump and his team should work to improve roads, rail, and transit across the entire country for all Americans.”

My thoughts

LOL 😆! Not married, not having kids? No Trump bucks for your state. The state of Colorado should stop making this a partisan issue and think of ways to increase marriages and births in the state and find an internal revenue source to maintain their roads.
What type of dystopian nightmare are we heading towards?
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